A Time to Keep Silence
de FERMOR, Patrick Leigh
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London: John Murray, 1957.. First trade edition. 8vo. 95, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, early gift inscription to the front free endpaper, dust jacket. 8 photographic plates plus illustrations in the text by John Craxton. Some wear and tear to the jacket with occasional losses, a little fading to the cloth where it has been exposed. Preceded only by the limited edition published by the Queen Anne Press in 1953.
Sinopsis
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania, and fought in Greece and Crete. He was awarded the DSO and OBE. He lived partly in Greece—in the house he designed with his wife, Joan, in an olive grove in the Mani—and partly in Worcestershire. He was knighted in 2004 for his services to literature and to British–Greek relations. Karen Armstrong , a historian of religion, spent seven years in a Roman Catholic religious order; she has written about this experience in Through the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase . She is also the author of many books, including A History of God , The Great Transformation , and, most recently, The Bible: A Biography.
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- Título
- A Time to Keep Silence
- Autor
- FERMOR, Patrick Leigh
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- Usado
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- 1
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- London: John Murray
- Fecha de publicación
- 1957.
- Palabras clave
- Travel
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